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Contest Winners Announced

The Stuff White People Like contest received over 685 entries! Unfortunately, narrowing that field down to three winners proved to be too difficult and the decision was made to award the prize to five people with each of the winning entries to be posted this week.

Thank you to every person who submitted an entry, the response was incredible.

Congratulations Mark Huber of Roxbury Crossing, MA for sending in the first winning entry:

Menus with no decimal places

You can always spot the chic white person as they sit in the padded seats of a nice quaint, posh restaurant staring at the menus. When the other person asks, “What are you having tonight, James?” the reply can often be found to be, “I’m having the Lobster Pillows with Crab Demi-Glaze. It’s only 12.″ That’s right, white people have grown to love restaurants with such advanced math calculations as getting rid of those pesky decimals and something that is more aesthetically pleasing to our eyes and pocketbooks.

Menu prices with decimals seem to confuse the white person in recent times, making one wonder, “Where should I round up or down to get an accurate price?!” With the invention of dropping decimals from menus, white people have solved the problem for themselves. Tax? No problem. Jane, who works in auditing, sitting across the table, has long had all applicable taxes calculated for you upon entering through the door.

Most of these restaurants, save McDonald’s, are posh up-scale restaurants with abstract names or hardly even names at all. “M,” “The Lavender Chateau,” and “Rendezvous 387″ are a few of the restaurants white people can count on for easy math, a tasty dinner, and of course, other white people. Don’t forget to look at the tapas menu: those items are only 3! Would you like to upgrade your aged prime-rib to the 12oz. portion? Sure, no problem, it’s only a 4 increase! If decimals were thrown into the mix, it would throw the entire equilibrium out of balance.

Plaza Greens for $5.99, or Plaza Greens for 6? Throw the nines in mix and that’s way too many numbers for any white mind to deal with. Even Jane in auditing would have to break out her financial calculator.

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Oh, man, I have a “gourmet hamburger restaurant” in my neighbourhood (they make excellent fancy-ass poutine) that uses traditional fractions on their menu. This burger is 8 1/2 dollars! This milkshake is 2 3/4! I have no idea what the point of this is. I -do- live in a predominantly white area, though, so maybe it’s some kind of halfass catering to this desire.

Ahem: The title ought to read “Menus without decimals.” Why white people always fuck up grammar by saying “with no” rather than “without” is beyond me. Remember: “with” implies possession; use it correctly.

Awww…..Not a bad attempt, but my complaint is that the last entry by C. lander was about ‘menus and grammer’…..why repeat the subject with ‘menus without decimals’ ???? That just seems way to boring and repetitive, and annoying. Nah, they’re way too similiar. Better luck next time.

That’s because only The Wrong Kind Of White People eat off value menus. There is no vegetarian/vegan fare, the animals that form the meat products were not free range, there are no low-fat/low-carb alternative menu choices, and the staff is enslaved by greedy corporate executives that only pay minimum wage.

“Plaza Greens for $5.99 or Plaza Greens for 6? Throw the nines in mix and that’s way too many numbers for any white mind to deal with.”

That doesn’t work, as the purpose of these articles is to portray white intelligence not as inferior but simply as skewed, backwards or hypocritical. Should read something more like

“Plaza Greens for $5.99 or Plaza Greens for 6? Throw the nines in mix and this suddenly becomes a menu item at Arby’s, Red Lobster or Applebee’s. In the white mind, such faux-restaurants are only one or two tiers above the high school cafeteria.”

This really was a terrible entry. The writing here usually has a glib, well intentioned, informative ring to it. This one was just mean spirited and dumb. I’m a black guy who lives in Brooklyn and I winced when I got to the part that said “white mind”.

Plus the fact that they had to throw in that fast food joints completely debunk the premise takes the mojo right out of the entire entry.

Doesn’t work. First, comma usage errors. One of the blog’s previous posts mentioned “grammar’ or maybe “punctuation” as SWPL; satire’s skilfulness involves doing the thing being critisised (Borat, Swift), and so poor grammar comes off (here) as a kind of shot-from-the-outside.

Second, the whole edifice of SWPL rests on a kind of super-cheeriness; you can’t actually be critical (directly) ie by saying “the white mind can’t calculate.”

It all comes down to editing– the idea is spot-on in that it sees SWPL as essentially class criticism– but style, ironically, is almost everything. Hopefully clander will run the editing past a few others.

Sweet catch Mark. That minimal menu thing is soooo overpackaged eh? Have you seen menus where they just list the main ingredients of the dish without any adjectives, like this: salmon endive chevre pink peppercorn.

Usually all lowercase too, how lame is that?

on a similar note: I think I know where the decimals went. They went out and took over the dashes from our phone numbers.

this was shockingly BAD (not funny AND unfamiliar–and I live in Brookline, MA: white people central!!!)

I sincerely hope the other winning entries are drastically better; it makes one wonder: are the people who run this blog beginning to soften the perspective now that they have the book deal; is there some incentive to make this a little “lighter” for the white people?

who knows; to the bloggers: please don’t ruin this blog; keep it at least a little controversial, that’s what makes it good

I was seriously let down by this entry. I had high expectations, since there were over 600 applicants, but if this was in the top five, then I shudder to think what the others looked like. And, at the risk of exposing my whiteness, there were several grammatical errors that I noticed that detracted from the already dismal article. There is a reason that C. Lander writes this blog, and we all don’t.

This entry sucks. I was seriously disappointed by the entire article. The blog normally has an informative, anthropological ring to it, and it is satirical and witty. This entry was condescending and ignorant. “White mind”? Seriously? That wasn’t clever and funny, but rather was just harsh and offensive. It completely missed the mark of being judgmental without the judgement, if that makes any sense… I hope clander gets back to blogging regularly, and keeps the amateurs out.

What an incredibly bitter, contemptuous, contemptible article. More to the point, how erroneous.

Integer prices are popular at hip restaurants because they are aesthetically understated, elegantly brief, and suggest that the customer is neither cheap enough to worry about saving a penny or five, nor dumb enough to be fooled by trick prices like $6.99.

Respondents here have noted that the article is written by an outsider, and it’s true. They clearly lack the class background to understand the targets of their ridicule.

Yeah, this wasn’t a great one. Maybe C Lander wants to show how superior his own writing is in order to hawk more copies of the book. Or maybe he just appreciated the novelty of this one. I mean you have to admit, nobody here was expecting that item to appear and it didn’t make any of your would-be lists.

I didn’t submit an item, but now I wish I did. It would be entitled, “White People Like To Talk About Phasing Out the Penny”. I thought it would be too esoteric, but after seeing this one, I realize anything goes!

I was sort of familiar with this trend, but it didn’t grab me with the “Oh, that’s me all over!” sort of knee-slapping hilarity of some of the previous blogs…But still congrats to the winner. They’re can only be one!

Did you ever notice white guys rate chicks in whole numbers, 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Never heard of a chick that’s 8.732343 did you. Women on the other hand rate men in binary 0=No I won’t, 1= Yes I would, again with no middle ground.

Stuff White People Like: Being Financially Independent, Motivated, Socially Conscious, Community Oriented, Law-Abiding, Well Mannered, and Not Being a Burden on Society. In other words, what it generally takes to contribute to a productive society.

Unlike most minorities.

Everything in this post was spelled checked and has proper grammar. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, whitey.

“Throw the nines in mix and that’s way too many numbers for any white mind to deal with.”

Right, the race that invented calculus can’t quite match the legendary numeracy of the blacks, the mestizos, the polynesians, the aborigines, the etc., etc.

Butthead. Removing the .99 from the price is actually a good thing. Women know what I’m talking about: girlfriend orders the $10.99 sandwich then when the bill comes pulls out a tenner and asks if that’s enough, as if taxes and tip and the .99 don’t exist.

Unfunny, not necessarily true, and not even applicable to the neo-hippie dippie, self-righteous educated lefties who seem to generally be the target of this blog. Also, insufficiently sarcastic, not satirical. There HAD to be better entries.

Ya’ll are haters! I like this entry — I think it’s BRILLIANT. I live in a small town — we haven’t got any fancy restaurants like that here, but it’s damn funny because it’s so true. White people like to OVER analyze things — so simplifying something like prices is a good thing for them.

Absolutely..this is the worst SWPL article I have read so far. It looks as if it was written in haste to meet a deadline, not by someone who put a lot of effort in to win a prize. If that is truly the case, the selection committee needs a complete revamping.

The article is full of misspellings, gramatical errors, and occasionally a sentence that reads like it was translated to English by someone who doesn’t speak the language. Not to mention, the subject is not even funny.

Even more than whole numbers, white people like menus with the numbers spelled out – not ‘blood orange salad 9’, but ‘blood orange salad, nine’. Better yet, nine AND A HALF. When white people get to use fractions casually during the day, it makes them feel hip and trendy, and the lack of numerals doesn’t intrude on the aesthetics of the line. Plus, with the proliferation of white liberal arts graduates, white people are generally more comfortable around letters than they are numbers. White people also feel much more comfortable when the entire menu is written in lower case letters. Despite their documented love of grammar, a white person simply loves the look of uncapitalized text.

i don’t relate to this at all. i come here to laugh at “it’s funny because it’s true” entries. oh well. this entry was also more of an insult than a joke. other ones are more light-hearted jabs. thumbs down.

I have to say that was a soory post.. i have been to some upscale restaruants owned by a few black musical talents.. one of the richest men in the hip hop world, and his menu was without the dots …… this is grabbing at straws…there are so many more rich targets.. like Arts and Crafts festivals.. nothing better to get the CRUNCHY WHITEYs out and talk about the good ol days when Gerry G was still alive.. now there is a great one.. Another.. Climing into trees to protest the environment issue de jour.. That is a uniqulely white event.. these people sit in trees for weeks..they use themselves for a potty no less. UGGGG.. show me one black man or woman that is crazy enought to do that!!

you did get posted and a free book. BUT — your getting posted is no reward, as the entire world now knows you’re NOT AT ALL FUNNY, and as for the free book, well, whatever — I’d rather not demonstrate my lack of humor, sensitivity, and poor mastery of the English on the internet for the world to see, and instead pay $20 to buy my own book. And oh yeah, only the bad kind of white people — the ones who couldn’t get more inspiring jobs saving the world or whose parents aren’t rich enough to let them be hipsters — have jobs where they regularly encounter people from “auditing.”

this guy did posted and won a free book. BUT — his getting posted is no reward, as the entire world now knows you’re NOT AT ALL FUNNY, and as for the free book, well, whatever — I’d rather not demonstrate my lack of humor, sensitivity, and poor mastery of the English on the internet for the world to see, and instead pay $20 to buy my own book. And oh yeah, only the bad kind of white people — the ones who couldn’t get more inspiring jobs saving the world or whose parents aren’t rich enough to let them be hipsters — have jobs where they regularly encounter people from “auditing.

Menus? Menus are for people who eat in restaurants. Lately I’ve only eaten carry-out, if I’ve eaten out at all.
But if you want to see stuff this Brazilian white woman likes, look here: http://www.escrevalolaescreva.blogspot.com
(nothing porn, sorry to disappoint).

Yeah. I have to agree with the majority. This one is pretty weak. A white person who knows someone “from auditing” is probably one of the wrong kinds of white people. Most likely the kind that thinks of Dilbert as “edgy” and wears belts with suspenders. The right kind of white person understands exactly how lame those things are, and prefers more progressive company.

I only discovered the phenomenon of the decimal-less menu last weekend, and never once did it occur to me that it might be a White People thing. While I would imagine that yes, White People are going to be far more likely to order off a decimal-less menu than other folks, I don’t think the idea fits in so well with all the other White People stuff that Clander has documented so well on this blog.

I think the author had a good concept but was wrong in how he chose to write the piece. All of the previous posts are written as instructions in describing what white people like & how to integrate yourself into their society. This piece, unfortunately, was more of a rant against the topic rather than support for it. He had some interesting points, such as the odd names of restaurants (there’s a few like that in my city) & the concept of the single digit price. Unfortunately, to me, that’s about all there was. Hopefully the four other winners will be written in the spirit of the blog. And yes, I submitted an entry myself, so I am a little disappointed that this one might beat me out.

Mediocre and badly written. He used the word restaurant three times in two sentences, for god’s sake. It doesn’t take a thesaurus to figure out a good alternative. Not to mention that this is the first post on this site about something that I’ve neither seen nor heard about in some way shape or form.
You should have chosen ‘discovering hip restaurants,’ or something along those lines, and had the decimal thing be just one of many aspects that could make a given locale appealing to white people. I would think that a more important thing to the right kind of white people would be finding a good restaurant that wasn’t already populated by tons of those same kinds of white people, as reportedly these ‘decimal free’ places are from birth.

This is lame. It is a point of face that white people love decimal places, hence the pride in being able to name up to 10 places of pi. The one to two cents below the whole makes them feel like they are just spending a little bit less and, err go, getting a better deal.

The topic has so much potential, but the execution was awful, really, truly awful, in so many ways, all already well documented by others. I was really looking forward to reading the winning entries. What a huge disappointment.

With over 600 entries, maybe clander made his choices just based on the titles, because that was the ONLY good thing about this entry.

It does kinda blow. White people are very smart, how hard is it to round up to 6 for you calculations? 5.99, 15.95, 10.99, The extra numbers are there because white people put them there. The restaurant owner makes the dish 10.99 instead of 11 because 10 is smaller then 11 and 10.99 makes the dish sound less expensive then saying 11. If its 11, then why not 10? A whole number seems to be easier to bargain down from, but a number like 10.99, what are you going to say, “can I get it for 10.87?” If this is the winner, im dissapointed. Im sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but ive seen way better ideas in the comments.

Its not that his writing was bad, it was fine, but the idea was crap. I dont think the anyone really cares aout decimals, unless your a complete retard and can only do calculations in your head without decimals. If thats the case, the Wrong Kind Of White Person!

Seems to me they are trying to get out of doing as much work as possible. White people love outsourcing. Thats why we have “gardeners” who are actually just “grass cutters”. You know what would have been a great entry idea, white people love to make job titles sound more important. Instead of secretary, its Executive Assistant, or instead of cashier, its Retail Sales Coordinator. Bullshit crap like that would have been a better entry.

We are not jealous, we are educated, and there is a difference. We expect published material to be free from errors and have some sort of fluidity with the other posts, and this one falls dead on it’s face.

We have to have pennys and I will tell you why. We need them to throw into fountains. We need them to put on train tracks to make artwork. We need them for dradle. We need them to throw on the ground when we want to empty our pockets. We need them to spin when we are bored. We need them to throw at people heads then look away for sheer pleasure. We need them to throw off buildings. We need them so we can turn them into dollars at Coinstar. We need them check the wear on our tires. We need them so children will know who lincoln was. We need them for out children to use at school for counting. We need them for commercials to show how cleaning products work on a dirty pennies. I guess we also use them to buy stuff with, but thats about it.

The book was undoubtedly printed before this contest began given its distribution date. Surely that was done sometime last month. So, this one won’t be in it (unless you all choose to print it out and staple it into your private editions, but that’s between you and your god).

But, I think you’re on to something in that the winning five here were probably chosen because they were on such unexpected topics that even Mr. Lander himself, in his capacity as the all-knowing expert on white people, didn’t even consider. They were probably chosen because they weren’t in the book.

Perhaps some of the people losing sleep over their entries losing out to the above should think about whether they wrote about something obvious enough to actually already be in the book. In that case, he wouldn’t post your effort, with his own take on the subject already in there.

I say good on Lander for opening up the door a bit and giving the fans of this site a bit of the spotlight.

PS — I vote for an honorary mention for the guy who wrote the “In defence of the penny” comment above.

Yeah, that white person wannabe comment was already posted elsewhere. You’d rather not demonstrate your lack of humor AND instead pay $20 to buy your own book? No worries -it’s only going to be one or the other.

what would be soothing to me and make everything right with my world again: post this winning entry covered in all manner of red marking and editing symbols. I can feel my heart rate stabilizing just by visualizing it.

Yes, everyone who doesn’t like this post is jealous. It’s obvious. That must be it. There are no valid reasons for not liking this post. None. Not even one. They are all just jealous. All of them. Every last one of ’em. Jealous.

The absence of the decimals on the white person’s menu can also be attributed to the fact that white people consider themselves to be marketing savvy and won’t fall for the aesthetically pleasing, yet obvious trickery associated with a $5.99 plate of Plaza Greens. A white person applauds themselves with the fact that they know to round up and not down.

For White People the life uncommented upon is not worth living. Right down to the tiniest mundane aspects thereof.

Even terminally dull White People can ratify their membership in the Group with the right attitude and a few well-chosen tropes strung together.

“Like a scene from “8 ½” with the gritty realism of a Bukowski poem and the deliciously naïve idealism of a Ron Paul supporter.”

A blurb like that could describe the latest vintage wardrobe score, a friend’s found-object art exhibit at the corner coffee shop or a chocolate chip cookie from the new organic bakery.

When done correctly the Expert Level White Person will craft a mash-up of so many disparate hipster elements — with such deadpan panache and ironic flair– that the resulting serpentine hodge-podge of ellipsis, simile and non sequitur leaves their pasty-faced peers marveling, glassy-eyed, at the sheer mesmerizing emptiness of the thing.

Turning this to your advantage can be tricky. It all depends on the right response.

There is one instance when you can be sure to score huge White People points 100% of the time.

When it’s for the kids.

Any blurb applied by White People to their children should be leaped on with wild enthusiasm and epileptic demonstration.

If you have the good fortune to be seated with a White People Mom in a public place, such as the deck new coffee shop, and she gushes a blurb describing little Diablo’s pre-school finger paint creation— go for it.

Hang on every word as you grab your seat in feigned excitement building up until you thrash around in an ecstatic show of glowing affirmation.

Meg Ryan in that HARRY flick has got nothing on you. Forget about breakage. Knock a table over. White Mom will pay. You’ll be golden.

After that White Mom and Dad will give you a kidney if you need it. They’ll give you one of their children’s kidneys. Yes.

you’re writing style sucks and you have no idea how to set your thoughts up and follow through. plus, I know four year olds that can put together better sentences…you should have hired a monkey to proof read your entry, it most likely would have sounded better.

My girlfriend constantly nags me to do more chores around the house (”Do the dishes!”, “Wash the dogs!”, “Blah, Blah, Blah!”). I constantly nag her for sex (”Babe, I’m horny!”). Who would have thought that the two activities were actually related? Apparently, when men participate in domestic tasks like sweeping the floor, women feel much more sexy and find the man much more attractive! This is according to an article on CNN.com which states,

“…more equitable division of household duties may lead to more intimacy in the bedroom….When a man does housework, it feels to the woman like an expression of caring and concern, which then physically reduces her stress…A guy can be completely stressed out and want to have sex to burn it off, but women are not wired like that…Instead, he says, women need to feel relaxed in order to feel sexy — and it’s hard to unwind when there are chores to be done and a husband who’s oblivious to them.”

Wow! If my girlfriend would have told me this years ago, I’d be a lean mean cleaning sex machine!

As a white person, I must point out your nefarious comma splice. Maybe I’d have let it slide if you hadn’t written it in a comment about poor writing. A monkey would probably have caught this rudimentary error in his proofread.

i tried to read all of the comments to see if anyone picked up on this, but reading a bunch of bitching wears me out. why were there two posts in a row about white people and menus. is that meant to be interesting, cause a few pages of bitching is actually more interesting than repeatedly talking about white people and menus, and, white people and punctuation. i imagine writing a book and publishing it is a lot of work, homeboy’s most likely worn out. mark is probably his friend, and he told him to write an entry and mark was all, “about what?” and then he wrote the first thing that came to mind, which was the last thing posted on the site, but here’s the catch… it’s a little different.

p.s. i’m white, but i have shit to do, i don’t capitalize, i don’t punctuate correctly, deal with it.

Seeing it posted like this I must admit it does not seem as good as thought but I’d like to see other people that are whining about the quality of the winners put up or shut up and post their own entries.

I worked in one of these places, and some “basic” white people would order by number, as they were unaware that the number was the price and not an expedient way of communicating what food item you desired. “I’ll have number 28.”

If I had proof read your own comment, it would have sounded better and resulted in a more effective argument.

I find your writing style to be sub-par (using words like “suck” often degrade your point and intelligence). Your theme development and thought progression caused confusion (I don’t agree with this, by the way), and I had a hard time following along (declaring that the author has “no idea” is considered presumptuous and requires more evidence to back your point).
(It is important to start a new paragraph when you change points)
I would also like to point out that your sentence composure is that of a kindergartener’s; next time I recommend proof-reading (note the hyphen).

Not only do I disagree with each and every thing that you said, you seem to be having quite a few editorial problems as well. Perhaps you should consider casting stones at the mirror before casting them at others.

Worst entry I’ve seen in a while. This is simple menu engineering. Clearly a menu with decimals denotes a cheap restaurant–this has nothing to do with white people liking menus with decimals and everything to do with white people prefering upscale restaurants/menus.

Yes, there are. I have a European colleague and whenever we go shopping, without fail he will see an item priced “X.99” and say “that one is X”. No matter how many times I point the price is “X+1” he keeps making the same mistake, he just doesn’t “see” the decimal portion. I wouldn’t have believed it unless I’d seen it with my own eyes but there you have it. I’ve long since learned to instantly round up (by just taking the base number and adding one).

That is extremely funny. Not only do I love menus like that, but it just makes so much sense to not have everything ending in .99. The worst menu is the walking menu. Ever been to an extremely upscale restaurant where the waiter actually comes over and recites the menu to you? Besides this being a pop quiz on verbal memory, walking menus don’t have prices. It just puts the entire evening on edge as you wait for bill.

I prefer to dine at restaurants and cafes especially that list their prices in dollars and dimes as in $3.9 or $16.2. The math is very easy, and it still gives the proprietor the opportunity to set fun prices. Dollars alone are usually too crude. I will only tolerate a menu in only dollars if the restaurant has at least a six week waiting list.

I don’t know who falls into the category of “basic” white people, but if you are inferring that white people are stupid, take a look at the statistics of what race doesn’t finish high school. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In order to understand Mark’s lame S.W.P.L. entry, we must first understand Mark himself. Mark claims to be from “Roxbury Crossing”, Massachusetts. See, what Mark is trying to do here is be ahead of the hipster curve. Mark actually lives in a section of Boston known as Mission Hill, which is littered with hipsters and loser Mass Art dropouts. Roxbury Crossing is actually the name of the subway stop down the street from his rent-inflated, rat-infested apartment. Unless Mark is homeless and sleeping on the train platform, then he is only referring to his place of residence as “Roxbury Crossing” to be different. He is pretending to walk to the beat of a different drum. When in actuality, Mark is just trying to fit in…fit in amongst a sea of smelly, socially confused hipsters.

Mark is obviously not originally from the city of Boston. MY guess is that Mark is a high school geek-turned-hipster. This means Mark wrote for his suburban high school newspaper. His ugly ex-girlfriend once told him (after taking his virginity) that he has “a great way with words” and should “keep writing”. Mark’s dad assumed he was a homosexual when he asked to go to art school. That subsequently led to his father passive-aggressively disowning him over the next 4.5 years. This is when Mark made the full transition to ‘hipster’ status. He realized that by dressing in awkwardly-fit clothing and riding a bicycle was the perfect way to pretend that you don’t care if other people were judging you.

Mark thought he was really “sticking it to the man” by hating on restaurants that his dad likes. But his entry is not only humorless, but doesn’t even target the people that S.W.P.L. mocks. Yes, restaurants that use whole numbers in their menus are probably restaurants frequented by white people. But honestly, Mark, if you’re just trying to impress your “friends” by hating on the norm here, then you’re really barking up the wrong tree.

Go back to suburbia, Mark. Make things right with your father. TAKE YOUR vintage dropped-handlebars and your uncomfortably tight pants and your ugly girlfriends and their synthetic vegan diets and your BAD FUCKING attitudes and get the fuck out of my city!

I find this website quite humourous. As i was going down from the hundreds to number one, i realzed the number one thing white people like is coffee. Now i am white, or caucasion if you please, and i find that so very true haha. When it was related to ciggarettes i laughed because it is mostly true, the first people at school you see to start drinking coffee is white people. The consumed race at starbucks? white. Anyways, point being, before i start rambling, its funny i liked it.

This new trend bothers me. The more pretentious restaurants have not only eliminated dollars signs and decimals; they have taken to using fractions instead of decimals. Instead of $5.25, a slice of cake is 5¼. This is when it is time to stop eating there, even if you are white. These restaurants are always overly crowded, loud, and have electric torches heating the outdoor patio in winter.

There is a good reason for this: Greed. Cornell University’s Center for Hospitality Research did research at a restaurant of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and found all people spend more when the menu shows 20 instead of $20.00 or 20 dollars or even $19.99.

How about a $1 burger on the menu? I don’t see where the habit of 99 cent prices identicated instead of the all out $1 dollar bill? Don’t forget tax…and white people like to pay (or ditch) taxes whenever it is convenient.